#ourselve

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#ourselves #warfare #weaponry #will

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life. ↗

— Judith Wright

#create #difficult #experience #hungry #less

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

#evil #good #good people #half #let us

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. ↗

— Frank Pittman

#distrust #make #ourselves #parents #seem

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dark #dark side #everyone #honest #ourselves

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that? ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#ask #going #good #lousy #ourselves

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#course #first #might #nothing #occupy

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we? ↗

— April Winchell

#get #ourselves #playing #shall #stop